Archive for August, 2008
Calculating QuickBooks Reorder Points
Last week in my posting on Understanding QuickBooks Reorder and Build Points I talked about how QuickBooks uses the Reorder Point in reports to tell you when to reorder purchased parts. Today I will discuss some ideas on how to select a reorder point for your items.
Understanding QuickBooks Reorder and Build Points
It’s never a good idea to run out of important inventory items that you resell or use in manufacturing. In simple inventory control systems we often set a minimum stocking level that is used to generate a warning when an item falls below a particular on-hand balance, so that you can order (or build) more of the item just before you run out. In this article I’ll examine how QuickBooks handles this process.
Multiple Part Numbers for the same QuickBooks Item
There are times when you have an inventory part in your QuickBooks item list that you want to refer to by different ID’s in an invoice. Sometimes the customer wants THEIR part number on the invoice, for example. How can you handle that with QuickBooks? If you have a “Widget” but one customer wants to see their ID on the invoice, “Wid001″, what can you do? And what if you have several customers who each have their own ID’s?
Outsourced or Sub-Contract Work in QuickBooks
Many manufacturing (and other) businesses send materials out to another firm to perform some intermediary processing of the item. This can be plating of a component part, populating a PC board with circuit components, and many other tasks. I’ll give you some ideas of how you might handle this in QuickBooks.
